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THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 2
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False teachers among the saints are damned—Lustful saints shall perish in their own corruption.
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But</span> there were <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of the Early Christian Church; TG False Prophets.">false</a> prophets also among the people, even as there shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG False Doctrine; TG False Priesthoods.">false</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Teachers.">teachers</a> among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that <sup>d</sup><a href="2_pet/2/1d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Cor. 6: 20.">bought</a> them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
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And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Truth.">truth</a> shall be evil spoken of.
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And through covetousness shall they with <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 16: 18.">feigned</a> words make merchandise of you: whose <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 35.">judgment</a> now of a long time lingereth not, and their <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/3c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Damnation.">damnation</a> slumbereth not.
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For if God spared not the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Angels; TG Death, Spiritual, First; TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">angels</a> that sinned, but cast <i>them</i> down to <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/4b" mark="b" type="C" title="1 Tim. 3: 6; TG Hell.">hell</a>, and delivered <i>them</i> into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Judgment, The Last.">judgment</a>;
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And spared not the old world, but saved <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 8: 1; Heb. 11: 7; 1 Pet. 3: 20 (20-21).">Noah</a> the eighth <i>person,</i> a preacher of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>, bringing in the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Earth, Cleansing of; TG Flood.">flood</a> upon the world of the ungodly;
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And turning the cities of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 24; Jude 1: 7 (4-7).">Sodom</a> and Gomorrha into ashes condemned <i>them</i> with an overthrow, making <i>them</i> an <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/6b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR token, example.">ensample</a> unto those that after should live ungodly;
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And delivered just <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 15 (12-22).">Lot</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/7b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR oppressed by the outrageous behavior of the lawless.">vexed</a> with the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Filthiness.">filthy</a> conversation of the wicked:
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(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/8a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR oppressed, afflicted.">vexed</a> <i>his</i> righteous soul from day to day with <i>their</i> unlawful deeds;)
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The Lord knoweth how to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Deliverance.">deliver</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Godliness.">godly</a> out of <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Temptation.">temptations</a>, and to <sup>d</sup><a href="2_pet/2/9d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 38: 5 (5-6).">reserve</a> the unjust unto the day of <sup>e</sup><a href="2_pet/2/9e" mark="e" type="A" title="Alma 11: 44 (41-44); Alma 12: 15 (14-18).">judgment</a> to be punished:
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But chiefly them that <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walk</a> after the flesh in the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Lust; TG Sexual Immorality.">lust</a> of <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Uncleanness.">uncleanness</a>, and despise <sup>d</sup><a href="2_pet/2/10d" mark="d" type="R" title="GR constituted authority; TG Governments.">government</a>.  <sup>e</sup><a href="2_pet/2/10e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Boasting.">Presumptuous</a> <i>are they,</i> selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
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Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
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But these, as <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 3: 19.">natural</a> brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Morm. 4: 5.">perish</a> in their own corruption;
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And shall receive the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reward.">reward</a> of unrighteousness, <i>as</i> they that count it <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Pleasure.">pleasure</a> to <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Rioting and Reveling.">riot</a> in the day time.  Spots <i>they are</i> and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
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Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
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Which have <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Individuals.">forsaken</a> the right <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hag. 1: 7.">way</a>, and are gone <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Prov. 21: 16; Isa. 53: 6.">astray</a>, following the way of <sup>d</sup><a href="2_pet/2/15d" mark="d" type="A" title="Num. 22: 5; Deut. 23: 4; Rev. 2: 14 (12-17).">Balaam</a> <i>the son</i> of Bosor, who loved the <sup>e</sup><a href="2_pet/2/15e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Selfishness; TG Wages.">wages</a> of unrighteousness;
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But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 22: 30.">ass</a> speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
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These are <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jude 1: 12 (7-21).">wells</a> without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 8: 23 (23-24); 1 Ne. 12: 17.">mist</a> of <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/17c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 95: 12; D&C 133: 72 (71-74).">darkness</a> is reserved for ever.
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For when they <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 73: 8; Jude 1: 16.">speak</a> great swelling <i>words</i> of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>, they <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/18c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR entice, entrap.">allure</a> through the <sup>d</sup><a href="2_pet/2/18d" mark="d" type="A" title="Jude 1: 11 (7-21).">lusts</a> of the flesh, <i>through much</i> wantonness, those that were clean <sup>e</sup><a href="2_pet/2/18e" mark="e" type="A" title="2 Pet. 1: 4.">escaped</a> from them who live in error.
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While they promise them <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Liberty.">liberty</a>, they themselves are the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/19b" mark="b" type="Q" title="GR slaves; Jude 1: 4.">servants</a> of <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/19c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sin.">corruption</a>: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in <sup>d</sup><a href="2_pet/2/19d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Bondage, Spiritual.">bondage</a>.
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For if after they have <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 6: 4 (4-6); 1 Ne. 8: 28 (24-28).">escaped</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Pollution.">pollutions</a> of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/20c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 85: 8; D&C 42: 26.">again</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="2_pet/2/20d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Cor. 2: 11; D&C 20: 5.">entangled</a> therein, and <sup>e</sup><a href="2_pet/2/20e" mark="e" type="A" title="D&C 76: 35 (34-35).">overcome</a>, the latter end is <sup>f</sup><a href="2_pet/2/20f" mark="f" type="A" title="Alma 24: 30.">worse</a> with them than the beginning.
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For it had been better for them not to have <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Knowledge about.">known</a> the way of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/21b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>, than, after they have known <i>it,</i> to <sup>c</sup><a href="2_pet/2/21c" mark="c" type="A" title="Heb. 10: 39.">turn</a> from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
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But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog <i>is</i> turned to his own <sup>a</sup><a href="2_pet/2/22a" mark="a" type="C" title="Prov. 26: 11; TG Apostasy of Individuals; TG Apostasy of the Early Christian Church.">vomit</a> again; and the sow that was <sup>b</sup><a href="2_pet/2/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Washing.">washed</a> to her wallowing in the mire.
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